Nothing tastes better than a fresh bounty of lettuce from your own garden or the farmer’s market – but not-so-fast when it comes to tossing it all into a bowl to eat. Lettuce, like other produce, ...

When it comes to washing fruits and vegetables, steps like starting with a sanitized surface and always cleaning produce before cutting it can spare you from a nasty bout of food-borne illness. If ...

“Sanitizing” is different from cleaning. That’s one of the many things people get wrong about removing germs that Purdue experts want consumers to understand. “A sanitizer reduces the number of ...

I read an article in your entertainment section about a series that WTSP-Ch. 10 did on testing for spoilage on chicken and prepackaged salad mixes, etc. One of the things it said was that there are ...